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Originally Posted by cuervo72
You have way too much guilt, dude. Was mostly a flippant comment (with a kernel of truth). No need to go all white-knighting for an entire city.
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Guilt about what?
I just get annoyed by people who use sportsball hate to be dicks. I've gotten mostly used to it, but when it goes into racial stuff, like I said, it crosses a line, IMO. Yes, I know you were flippant and don't care how it comes across. That's my point. You don't give a shit. That's why I was curious if you were like this in real life. When it happens in real life, it's super-confrontational. It can get really hostile.
Edit: I watch a lot of football over beers and breakfast at a bar Sunday mornings in Idaho, it's a thing. Big group, a few friends, mostly friends of friends. I am the quietest Patriots fan in the world and I never wear any Patriots stuff so most people leave me alone. But it's kind of funny that I've heard way more of those kinds of racial accusations based on having some association with the Patriots or Massachusetts than I ever do from being from Idaho - where the 3 percenters are pretty much based. If we had to rank states by 3 percenter population per capita, I'd bet Idaho is #1 and Massachusetts is #50. (As Bishop pointed out, people accusing New Englanders of being racist are inevitably from a more racist state. And white people characterizing racism as a problem that exists only in other states, and is a problem for only other white people, is kind of the epitome of white privilege.) But wherever I go, being from Massachusetts or being a Boston sports fan - which has waned over the years, I don't care much anymore - provoke people so much more than anything else. And it's hurtful when it comes from people you liked or were friends with. So ya, if I'm sensitive about it, it's coming from a place of social PTSD.